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GEMBA students learn in traditional classrooms, bottom, and by exploring business in Bangalore and other markets, above.
riences, she says classroom-based executive programs offered by other institutions do not compete with GEMBA. “The program,” she says, “inspires you way beyond what’s in your grasp.”
gram,” he says, “I learned that emerging economies are quite big and powerful, and there is more than one center of gravity in our world now.” Montes Güell directly benefited from GEMBA when the chairman of Banco Sabadell asked him to represent the bank as a major stakeholder in an American bank in Florida. But there were many other, more subtle benefits as well. “You apply different management skills, you change your style, you change the way you are communicating,” he says. “Everything you learned, all your experience, it all has a different framework in this program. You understand better the things you already know.” Likewise, Gendron says she implemented new skills in her job at NII Holdings, Inc., immediately. She remembers one particular class that covered structuring a global organization, something her own company has struggled with, having formed through the acquisition of a number of companies throughout Latin America and operating as a very decentralized organization. “We were asking ourselves, ‘What is the right role of the headquarters, and where should decisions be made?’ Right as we’re going through all this, I had this class. It couldn’t have been more relevant.” For Hanna Dust (GEMBA ’11), Johnson & Johnson’s North American Pharmaceuticals MBA talent development director, lessons from a recently completed GEMBA consulting project proved valuable in her job, too. At Johnson & Johnson, she serves on a com-
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A common refrain among GEMBA students and alumni is the benefit of returning to their jobs after each module with new knowledge. “What they discover after these intense experiences is they go back and say, ‘OK, what does that mean to me?’” Parada says. “What we see is they apply it immediately. They return to their jobs and have fresh ideas.” For Miguel Montes Güell (GEMBA ’09), the GEMBA experience is helping his company expand globally. Montes Güell is COO and chief information officer of Banco Sabadell Group in Barcelona. “In the pro28
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